Book ID: CBB291963494

Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum (2019)

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Peschier, Diana (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 224
Language: English

How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves.

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Review Dan Degerman (2021) Review of "Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum". History of Psychiatry (pp. 115-116). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dondici, Danilo
Scrimgeour, David
Campbell, Morag Allan
Valeriano, Annacarla
Hewitt, Jessie
Gründler, Jens
Concepts
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Patients
Medicine and society
Clinical psychology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Denmark
United Kingdom
Istanbul (Turkey)
Institutions
Maudsley Hospital (England)
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
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